No offense meant, but couldn’t the sports peeps just stay over on Twitter? I really hate when trending topics are a list made entirely of sportsball. I mean sports twitter probably isn’t too affected by the Nazis over there right?
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If you think sports isn't effected by Nazis or RW you would be very very wrong. That side has effected all of society worldwide sadly. So just let people enjoy what they wish and don't engage with what you don't wish to.
I don’t have the power to “let” people do or not do anything. But I will enjoy the honeymoon period over here that isn’t bombarded yet by sports fanatics & tech bros while it lasts.
We don’t have a trending section here anyway. That was my frustration - I wish there could have been a way to share to trends w/ non sporting topics too.
Sports end up trending because, outside of major breaking political or entertainment news, they are the biggest trending things in the world at any given time.
Yeah. I can see that. But I also noticed that once Elmo took over, pro wrestling trended every single night. That’s a function of an algorithm that was changed imho.
Maybe we can have cringey people who call them “Elmo” and “Drumpf” stay on Twitter. Please learn how to use words beyond what BrooklynDadDefiant taught you.
You speak of sports fandom with an ignorance that makes me think you should explore an interest in sports. Sports fans aren’t some, right wing, racist, link headed monolith. We’re a rainbow filled with a lot more people that you have things in common with than you might think.
You’re an idiot. Most of us are here *precisely* because we just want to follow our sport and engage in debate surrounded it but without the attempted indoctrination to insane political beliefs.
You need to get off ALL SM and touch grass + make real, human friends who will tell you in *real life* that “sportsball” is the most desperately cringey, weird, pathetic thing someone could utter in the year of our lord 2024.
use your brain for 5 seconds to realize that there are gay people, Jewish people, women, disabled people, people of color, what have you that r sports fans and don’t like being harassed by Nazis
No. And calling it sportsball isn’t cool or edgy. The best part of Bluesky is the mass block feature. Create a sports list and block it all if you don’t want any sports.
You need to get out more if you think only Nazis like and play sports.
Like, my person, haven't you read storied for YEARS about how trans people have been forced out of sports? I'm queer and I love hockey. You think I want to hang with people who want me dead? haha no.
Hey there, sorry you're getting so much blowback for something you probably said without giving it much forethought. Kudos to you for engaging with the folks who replied and listening to why they were offended. It would've been very easy for you to be dismissive.
I could say the same about us sports fans who left X to get away from political doomscroll bot-filled echo chambers to have a fun place to talk about sports again only to find this place overrun with politics. Sports Twitter was racist and vile as hell. Can't we all just enjoy this space together?
How is asking y’all to continue enjoying in the things that bring you joy on Twitter being “a dick”…? If you’re not being harassed by vile Muskie’s & MAGAs regarding sports on Twitter why would you leave?
do you genuinely believe that they aren’t harassing us on that app & trying to hijack our favorite teams & leagues to fit their horrendous agendas?????
1) just because you aren't directly being harassed doesn't mean you want to support a platform that encourages that but
2) blue ticks posting engagement bait for money is a big problem for football for example so it's the product itself that's an isue
Also the vast majority of "sportsball" talk on Twitter now isn't about sports at all, it's about gambling. I don't wanna talk about damn parlays, I don't even know what that means. I want to talk about the actual sports without betting and crypto weirdos trying to scam me in my mentions.
Look at what women’s basketball and women’s soccer fans endure on twitter. Look at Angel Reese’s mentions, how people speak on Sam Kerr, how people speak about many NBA players and black MLB players. And tell us we don’t have a place? You and your interests are not the only thing in the world
You’re right. I never went on sports twitter. But I’m hearing from a lot of folks that it was pretty nasty over there.
I take it all back -
Glad y’all have a better spot to discuss your sports over here. Enjoy!
And they’re tribal about their teams because they’re insecure and their teams make them feel like they matter. It’s a core part of their fragile identities.
Things got so bad for me on Twitter as a liberal female sports writer that
I’ve been here for 19 months. Left 130K+ followers over there. You’ve been here four days. We are not the same.
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It's not like fascists on Twitter have constantly ginned up controversies in many sports to push their aims.
Or... wait?? Maybe the Nazis have had an impact on sports and do use it maliciously and you're just ignorant.
I'm at the sports bar (what?)
I'm at the combination Nazi and sports bar
No thanks. I prefer my sports without nazis.
b) Too bad.
Like, my person, haven't you read storied for YEARS about how trans people have been forced out of sports? I'm queer and I love hockey. You think I want to hang with people who want me dead? haha no.
some follow sports
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Or do you believe that sports aren’t political as well?
Maybe let people enjoy what they like, and scroll on by. Or mute if needed for your feed.
that is a wild statement to type unironically
It is adorable that people still find this trope funny. Wait until you remember the "whassup" ad.
2) blue ticks posting engagement bait for money is a big problem for football for example so it's the product itself that's an isue
Many sports fans are so tribal about their team that they will threaten to kill reporters who mention a QB is a serial sexual assaulter.
I take it all back -
Glad y’all have a better spot to discuss your sports over here. Enjoy!
It’s fucking AWFUL.
The worst people alive are there and they show up on every post to tell you that what you like sucks.
Especially anything Trevor Bauer related brought out all the incels.
I’ve been here for 19 months. Left 130K+ followers over there. You’ve been here four days. We are not the same.
I'm not interested in sports content either. So I just scroll by. If it really bothered me, I could mute some terms and filter most of it out.
Let people like things.
Let people like things in a space with fewer Nazis.
They ain't hurting you.
Nazis hurt everybody.